Status of repository standards for software engineering

The paper gives a brief overview of the activities during the eighties that led to the ECMA PCTE Standard. It also gives an up to date report on the status of both its adoption by ISO as well as its industrial impact in Europe, North America and in Japan. It uses the joint ECMA/NIST Reference Model for Frameworks to position both PCTE and other standards with respect to each other. This was based on output from the CASE Standards Coordination Meetings held under the auspices of the International Workshop on CASE, of which the author is the joint coordinator.<>